Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
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Related A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth... IRA SORKIN Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? DAVID BALDACCI Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? DAVID BALDACCI You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it. R... EMMA BRYNSTEIN Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other peop... JONATHAN DEE My God, the whole world is collapsing. Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to eac... DAVID BALDACCI I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its im... E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR. I read that the investigation is not complete. Statements have yet to be recorded from several other... MAHATHIR MOHAMAD Philosophy is nice word, people would like to read on it, I feel rather reading book on philosophy o... MANISH LAKHANI To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Jane Smiley is renowned for the variety and originality of her work. Writing in the] Washington Pos... WENDY SMITH Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing... AMANDA BOUCHET They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy. CATHERINE GASKIN Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! GABRIELLE DUBOIS Who am I?" she snaps. "I am America, Israel, England! What am I doing?" She waits another long momen... DIANA ABU-JABER YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the autho... NEIL GAIMAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on. HOWARD TAYLER Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime. CAREW PAPRITZ It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each othe... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b... JESSYE NORMAN If I had an ear 2 confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do u know that... TUPAC SHAKUR I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how... EDWIDGE DANTICAT Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav... EDDIE CAMPBELL It's still to be determined. Most of that stuff is for people to read and for people to talk about u... DARRELL HUNTER Never be ashamed of who you are, it is society that is a shame for not allowing us to just be. ASHLEIGH LOUISE DOVADOLA If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. TIM BURTON There is a need for the manufacturing that we do here to be close by. The military work that we do w... GIL PERRY Anybody is welcome to join us. It's a nice social hour for the senior citizens, and they really seem... DOLORES HOMINSKY Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are... ANDREW O'HAGAN O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each... HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. JIMMY CARTER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me. SKYLAR GREY I think Dr. King would be shedding a tear this morning, because we have done to ourselves what other... EUGENE WHITE A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That'... PATRICK NESS The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be... ABIGAIL DISNEY It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very ... CARSTEN NICOLAI It's nice for them to interact once in a while with people other than each other and their teachers. AMY THOMPSON We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other. RALPH FIENNES For each part is particularly qualified for ,the accomplishment of certain objects, ,and thus each i... GURU NANAK I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for ... IAIN S. THOMAS We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other... LOUIS DE BERNIèRES If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the pap... LORD ACTON If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the pap... PAUL AMBROISE VALERY War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go... JIMMY CARTER I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t... L.M. MONTGOMERY Military action on Iraq makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating. JESSICA LANGE Never read any book that is not a year old. RALPH WALDO EMERSON But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. JON KRAKAUER The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod... KURT VONNEGUT Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi... ROLAND BARTHES I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable.... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens o... JOHN DARNIELLE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e... GEORGE ELIOT To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS They were writing each other and he was trying to make preparations for her to be here. DANIEL KAYEE What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to stre... GEORGE ELIOT Nice days and nice people are fine, but what I really like are things that can be described as feroc... TAYLOR VERNON RYAN The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha... TERRY LANDER What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen e... GEORGE ELIOT Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. BURT BACHARACH The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever s... JOSEPHINE ANGELINI I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea... BARBARA BUSH If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated
readings deserves to be read at all. THOMAS CARLYLE If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. THOMAS CARLYLE Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il... WILLIAM DONELSON Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL Come on, this is a success. We're not killing each other. BARHAM SALEH Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody. RICHARD DAWSON I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quit... DOUGLAS COUPLAND I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... RAY BRADBURY I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it wa... PUSHPA RANA The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an ent... CORY DOCTOROW There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - ki... HARRY BROWNE Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendshi... C.S. LEWIS I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptiv... MAYA RUDOLPH But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when ... JOE GIBBS What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea... GEORGE ELIOT What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen ... GEORGE ELIOT You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, ... MIRANDA JULY Ugly people are not attracted to each other, they just often settle for each other. CARL WHITE Feel sorry for the people who refuse to apologize to you. This is their only way of staying connecte... SUSIE L HILL The retailers who get these economic-development incentives seem to be gaining in ways that they sho... ALAN PETERS I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you. RAY ROMANO
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